This song was composed by Mexican songwriter Agustín Lara and originally performed by singer Ana María González and tenor José Mojica in the 1941 film Melodías de América.
[3] "Solamente una vez" has been performed by many artists including Anacani, Natalie Cole, Sara Montiel, Daniel Rodríguez,[4] Quartetto Gelato,[5] Arielle Dombasle,[6] Benny Moré,[7] Ignacio Piñeiro,[8] Pedro Vargas,[9] Julio Iglesias,[10] Roberto Carlos,[11] Andrea Bocelli,[12] Chucho Valdés,[13] Plácido Domingo,[14] Nat King Cole,[15] Marty Robbins, Lucho Gatica,[16] Guadalupe Pineda,[17] Roland Shaw & His Orchestra,[18] Luis Miguel,[19] and Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
[20] "Solamente una vez", retitled "You Belong to My Heart", was featured in the Disney film The Three Caballeros with English lyrics written by Ray Gilbert and sung by Dora Luz.
[25] Singers Andy Russell, Jerry Vale, Engelbert Humperdinck and Gene Autry also recorded versions mixing Lara's and Gilbert's lyrics.
Tito Guizar sang the song in the Roy Rogers film The Gay Ranchero (1948), while Ezio Pinza performed a version mixing Lara's and Gilbert's lyrics in Mr. Imperium (1951), with Lana Turner and the Guadalajara Trio.